Spring in the Jade Tent

[Gentle, Sweet Wet Nurse x Cold-Hearted Powerful Official]

While gathering herbs in the mountains, Zheng Shifu found Zhou Peifang, who had lost his memory.

During their three years of marriage, Zheng Shifu bore him a child and raised her, worked herself to the bone for him, and even emptied her family's savings to support his studies.

At last, Zhou Peifang passed the highest imperial examination and took her to the capital to begin his official career.

She thought their hard days were finally over, but in the capital, her husband ingratiated himself with a princess and even asked her to become his concubine.

Everyone said she was as insignificant as an ant and her life as worthless as a blade of grass. Being called the princess's sister was the best fate she could hope for.

But Zheng Shifu was made of sterner stuff, and she was stubborn, too.

Heartbroken, she left home with her child and entered the prince's manor as a wet nurse.

The manor was magnificent, its power immense.

Zheng Shifu kept her head down and avoided trouble. She only wanted to feed her young charge, save enough silver, and buy a house when she left.

But the one who needed her care... wasn't the young master.

It was the person in charge of the prince's manor, the princess's young adoptive father.

Pei Zhiyu was elegant and untouchable in public.

In private, however, he pinned Shifu against the table and slowly undid the delicate ties at the front of her robe with his fingertips:

"You cured this prince's ailment. How should I... repay you?"

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Zhou Peifang thought Zheng Shifu was just a village woman, with no family or friends in the capital and not a penny to her name.

After divorcing him, she was sure to end up destitute and full of regret.

But when he married the princess, he bowed deeply to the elders.

In the seat of honor at the prince's manor, Pei Zhiyu gently clasped Shifu's hand and looked up at her with a smile:

"You should call her... Mother."